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Word: lilacs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Singing Fool (records all over); Show People ($33,000, Loew's State, Los Angeles, with Hearst boosting); Lilac Time ($18,000, Saenger, New Orleans); Wings ($15,000, Eckel, Syracuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citations | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...Fisk had the fun. As Prince of Erie he gloried in running the notorious railroad. Then he built the Fall River Line of boats, painted the cabins a delicate green with pearl trimmings; the cornices and arches, lilac, pink, and pearl; and as admiral laden with gold braid he stood gloriously on the bridge issuing resonant (though meaningless) nautical orders. His twinkling justification: "If Vanderbilt's a commodore, I guess I ought to rank as admiral." But colonel he actually was-the ninth division, short of men and funds, had gladly elected him, and he paraded with pomp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Another Black Bag | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...Singing Fool (records everywhere), Wings ($7,000, Valencia, Baltimore), Two Lovers ($24,000, Loew's State, Providence), Lilac Time ($11,000, Metropolitan, Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citations | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Fenway, continuous-"Lilac Time". A distinctly unsound sound picture. Don't stand in line to see it whatever you do, although the accompanying movie Tone and Vitaphone is good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/21/1928 | See Source »

COQUETTE?Helen Hayes making every-one cry in a play that contradicts some of the lilac legends about boys and girls in Dixie (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 9, 1928 | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

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